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Progressive Breakfast - 9/2/2011
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Labor Day Is A Day...
Quick Things To Bring Manufacturing Jobs Home
Here is a fact about bipartisanship and civility in Washington: the Republicans in Congress will obstruct anything President Obama proposes to create jobs and help the economy, period. A bad economy helps them in the coming elections, and that is that. Deal with it....
A Fair Mortgage Program Can Boost The Economy Create Millions Of Jobs And Shrink The Federal Deficit
Remember The Music Man? That's the musical where a con man tricks an entire town's parents into buying musical instruments they don't need by promising to teach music to their kids. Then he skips town. Only when he makes good on his promises is he forgiven by the town...
The Long March to Dismantle Democracy
I've been writing about the conservative movement's long term project to disenfranchise Democratic voters since I started this blog. I had hoped that after the debacle of the 2000 election, the Democrats would take this issue seriously and put some weight behind...
Youre Fired Tales From the No Quit Economy Pt 2
The CNNMoney piece on "firing horror stories" that inspired my previous post offered the employers' perspective on what's all too common story in this economy. Since then, I've found a few similar pieces, like this one from Fortune magazine, which once again...
Progressive Breakfast - 9/1/2011
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: A Fair Mortgage...
Youre Fired Tales From the No Quit Economy Pt 1
This CNNMoney Piece, "Firing horror stories" caught my eye, That's partly because it offered a perspective I don't always consider, while addressing a painful phenomenon only made more so in this recession. Think getting fired is hard? Try doing the firing....
Transportation Bill Actually Not Boring
"Transportation Bill Actually Not Boring" is actually not a headline from the Onion. President Obama today urged House Republicans to please not let the "Surface Transportation Bill" expire at the end of September. Up to one million people will lose their jobs if the...
Labor Day Build Esprit de Corps for Action
Celebrate Labor Day. Really, celebrate. It’s important. Wear a t-shirt announcing to the world the name of your union and march in a parade, chanting and whooping it up about how glad you are to belong to an organization whose members are devoted to looking out for...
Progressive Breakfast
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Perry's Iowa...
